TEDx Sydney returns to Carriageworks Saturday 26 May with curator Chris Anderson co-hosting worldwide audition of potential speakers
TEDxSydney, the annual ideas event will return in 2012 on Saturday 26 May to Carriageworks, Eveleigh, providing a speaking platform for 20 of Australia’s leading innovators, thinkers, leaders and change makers.
The event will be streamed live to an audience of hundreds of thousands in Australia and overseas via multiple feeds and ABC Radio National will also broadcast from the event, showcasing and broadcasting many of the sessions.
Further details about TEDxSydney including the speaker line-up, will be announced shortly. Applications for a Bay 17 Carriageworks auditorium ticket will open in March 2012, submitted via the TEDxSydney.com website.
This year a separate TED event will take place on Sunday 27 May featuring the Sydney leg of the TED Worldwide Auditions a global talent search which promises to bring together a remarkable lineup for TED2013 in Long Beach California – the theme for which is “The Young. The Wise. The Undiscovered.”
The live audition will be hosted by TED Curator Chris Anderson & TED Content Director Kelly Stoetzel along with TEDxSydney Licensee Remo Giuffré.
From April to June, TED will hold public auditions in 14 cities on six continents seeking to uncover the new talents, voices and ideas the world needs to hear. For the first time, the entire TED community will have a chance tovote on the most promising presenters. Many of these will be invited to join TED as speakers with at least half of the TED2013 Longbeach program selected that way.
TED Curator Chris Anderson says: “As with every TED, we will weave together a potent mix of presentations, covering creativity, invention, business, science and the most pressing global issues. But the way we’re doing it represents a leap of ambition, and a commitment to the power of the crowd. At least half of our line-up will come from these auditions. And we will invite you and others around the world to cast your votes on who gets invited.”
What is the process to audition for TED Worldwide?
There will be an online application process, which will open separately for each city, at least two months before the audition. Sydney applications will open on 19 March 2012. Applicants will be encouraged to include a short video of themselves. Anyone can apply to audition, so long as they have not spoken at a TED Conference, and do not have a talk posted on TED.com.
TED are on the hunt to uncover:
THE INVENTOR – sharing an innovation with world-changing potential
THE TEACHER – sharing valuable knowledge in a memorable way, to teenagers or adults
THE PRODIGY – young talent ready to break out
THE ARTIST – who can showcase their work in a compelling, new way
THE PERFORMER – music, dance, comedy, drama… or something entirely different
THE SAGE – wisdom the world needs from those who have learned it the hard way
THE ENTHUSIAST – with an infectious passion about a topic they can share
THE CHANGE-AGENT – helping shape the world’s future with work that matters
THE STORY-TELLER – vivid, original, meaningful … with a talent for connection
THE SPARK – with a powerful idea worth spreading
But, according to the team at TED: “Product-hawkers, jargon-junkies,dullards, wafflers, motivator wannabes, self-promoters, spouters of new-agefluff should not apply.”